VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2024-2496
This flaw could be used to perform a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.25%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.25%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the udevConnectListAllInterfaces() function in libvirt. This issue can occur when detaching a host interface while at the same time collecting the list of interfaces via virConnectListAllInterfaces API. This flaw could be used to perform a denial of service attack by causing the libvirt daemon to crash.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.25% probability · 17th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- redhat/libvirt · redhat/enterprise linux · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2236Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2496Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269672Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2236Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2496Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269672Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00000.htmlMailing List
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.